Brahms: Works for Solo Piano Volume 2

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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Works for Solo Piano Volume 2
Barry Douglas (piano)

[ Chandos Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 17 March 2013

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This is Volume 2 in our series devoted to the works for solo piano by Johannes Brahms, with the acclaimed pianist Barry Douglas. Since winning the Gold Medal at the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow, Douglas has established a major international career, and his reputation as a pianist and conductor continues to grow.

"Douglas superbly draws out the contrasts within each piece, bringing out their individual character, but the two ends of the Brahms life spectrum...seem perhaps closer than is entirely comfortable. Yet Douglas's pianism is as rewarding as before: his tone is a deep velvet cushion, the legatos full of affection and the rhythms galvanised with great energy." BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 *****

"This is another very fine Brahms recital from Barry Douglas. He seems to me to have the measure of the music, whether Brahms is in robust or autumnal mood, and it goes without saying that he has the full technical range to enable him to master the pianistic challenges as well as the interpretative ones." MusicWeb International, 17th June 2013

"Douglas is particularly successful with [the] B minor Ballade, and in the Sonata No 3 Op 5 written around the same time. There's a tendency towards heaviness in the Ballade Op 10 No 2, but the Intermezzi (Op 116 Nos 2 and 6, Op 117 no 2) and the Rhapsody Op 119 no 4 are handled with skill, perception and dignity." The Observer, 31st March 2013

Tracks:

Rhapsody in E flat major, Op. 119 No. 4
Intermezzo in B flat minor, Op. 117 No. 2
Intermezzo in A minor, Op. 116 No. 2
Intermezzo in E major, Op. 116 No. 6
Ballade in G minor, Op. 118, No. 3
Ballade, Op. 10 No. 2
Ballade, Op. 10 No. 3
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5